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  <title><![CDATA[Soul of the Fire (Sword of Truth, #5)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Richard Rahl has traveled far from his days as a simple forest guide. Emperor of D'Hara, war wizard, the Seeker of Truth - none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest. For Richard Rahl is now husband to Kahlan Amnell.

But their wedding is the key that unlocks a faraway spell, and now a deadly power pours forth across the world.

Separated from the Sword of Truth, stripped of their magic, Richard and Kahlan must journey across the Midlands to confront a secret from their past, and a trap that could tear them apart. For there's no place so dangerous as a world without magic...</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1999</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Soul of the Fire (Sword of Truth, #5)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Terry Goodkind]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fans of Sword of Truth, those who've read his first 4 books and want to go on.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 14 14:12:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a lot slower going than the previous four, perhaps because <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Terry Goodkind" title="Terry Goodkind">Terry Goodkind</a> is putting a lot of focus on characters we have never heard of up until now. At halfway through the book he picks up the pace though, and the last half of the book is actually very enjoyable.<br/><br/>Still, not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29522636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 20 22:35:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 23 02:53:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This, while still an amazing book, definitely has been the first to disappoint me at points when held against its predecessors. The writing is as captivating as ever (though I am growing tired of the rehashing/brief introductions - I know what's going on, I'm not taking long lapses between books...i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71957672">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 22:19:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 22:19:36 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Goodkind is a superb author, and in my opinion, his &quot;Sword of Truth&quot; series is the best I have ever read.  So good, in fact, that I have read the entire series three times in a row, back to back, non-stop. This series is *not* for children. The series covers many aspects of the dark ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44925696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51023550">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 31 08:14:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 31 08:19:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review refers to the SOT series through book 9.<br/><br/>Terry Goodkind’s first book Wizard’s First Rule was great! Except for the actual First Rule (&quot;People are Stupid&quot;), which was...stupid. The story had so many unique and fascinating characters (especially the secondary ones)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51023550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43741569">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 16:07:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 28 08:10:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think my rating for SotF is probably not completely related to how I actually enjoyed the book.  I didn't dislike it as much as I expected, in fact it wasn't bad, it just was nowhere near as good as TotW. So here it goes. <br/><br/>I loved that we got more history, as much as the first 200 pages...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43741569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51679804">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 08:35:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 04 09:09:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first five books in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3441.Terry_Goodkind" title="Terry Goodkind">Terry Goodkind</a>'s Sword of Truth series back to back, but now I am ready for a break. For the sake of completion, I do plan to finish the set eventually; however, I am in no rush to do so. Devouring this book felt like binging on junk food - only temporarily satisfying,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51679804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61648936">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 30 11:59:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 30 11:59:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[J'avais adoré les quatre premiers tomes de l'Epée de Vérité, mais ce cinquième volume me laisse un peu perplexe. L'action principale se dilue pour nous faire découvrir deux autres peuples, pas franchement plus attrayant l'un que l'autre. Des personnages complexes et bien amenés, mais dont on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61648936">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49339900">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 09:53:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 20 06:52:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series. But I just wish he'd stop with the repeating and recapping. I get it already! I understand that the books came out at about year intervals, and that would explain part of it, but it doens't begin to explain why he recaps things that happened in the <em>same book</em>, or that are basic pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49339900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41703288">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 05:22:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 05:54:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started to read this book, then I was like yeah this series is starting to suck.  So I put it down for probably about three or four years and then when I was in the book store one day I realized the author was still writing the series and it was coming to an end.  So I was like what the heck and d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41703288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36400678">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 28 11:59:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 07:26:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, this book (5th in the series) is much harder to read than the others. There is <em>way</em> too much petty dialogue. I am not liking how the action, adventure and POINT of the story is getting bogged down in petty, uncharacteristic &quot;now that the main characters are married, they're acting like i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36400678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29235516">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Stephanie Chow]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 04 13:22:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 07 19:06:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the fifth book of the Sword of Truth series, Goodkind introduces another magical threat from the underworld ready to tear the veil and end life as we know it: the chimes.  Of course, only Richard has the brains and the guts to stop them.  The catch: he doesn't have the Sword of Truth, nor does he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29235516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13373440">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 08 19:03:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire (Tor, 1999)<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>As we left Richard and Kahlan last time, the two were girding the lions of the D'Haran Empire against the Emperor Jagang and his Imperial Order, getting ready for the all-out war sure to come. In book five, Jagang's army makes their ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13373440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76124744">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 10:48:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 10:51:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goodkind always starts the book by reintroducing characters and giving a brief synopsis of whats currently happening with each character as they come back into the storyline.  This book becomes a little different in the fact that suddenly there is a jump to this new place (I dont believe is mentione...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76124744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59576204">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 20:23:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 20:25:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Different than the other books, but more enjoyable to me than its predecessor, Temple of the Winds.  The storyline was more interesting, though I wish there had been more development in the over-arching storyline of the epic war between the Midlands and the Imperial Order. That development didn't re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59576204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43561602">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 06:23:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is definitely going to way of most long, drawn out fantasy series, in that it's starting to get long and drawn out.<br/><br/>Most of the book centred around brand new characters, none of which I could care less about, until the very end of the book. And that's only because of the strange...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43561602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48035050">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 14:49:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this one very much - mostly because Goodkind turned Kahlan into an idiot pansy who just sits around doubting everything Richard feels is right.  Uhm, hello?  5 books into the series you'd think she would have figured out how seeker powers worked.<br/><br/>I think this is the book tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48035050">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 09:51:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 01 19:49:18 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a very interesting insertion into the series.  Rather than focusing on the two main forces, the D'harans, led by Richard Rahl, and the Imperial Order, led by Emperor Jagang, it covers the actions of a smaller country that is effectively neutral in the struggles, Anderith.  The main prob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3908589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52494034">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 13 08:40:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 13 08:43:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most different book in the series....for most people, it's their least favorite. The spotlight has been taken off of of the main characters and an entirely new set is introduced. I still enjoyed it because I love how the author writes. That and the fact that it plays an integral role in tying th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52494034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45414946">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 19:14:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 05 15:06:40 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found that while this was another page turner by Terry Goodkind, it lacked something that I can't put my finger on.  Just like the last book, new characters where introduced that really infuriated me.  Still, I find myself unable to walk away from this series as the books are too good to put down.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45414946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63309151">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 12:26:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 13 12:55:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[More garbage pumped out because of profit.  Goodkind no longer cares about a decent story.  Whatever pops into his mind he will just throw at the page because fantards will buy it up and he will make money.  The only reason I read it is because my friend said the series gets better after this book.]]></body>
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